digital emunction » Ange Mlinko http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Jokes, Poetry, and Originality, with Special Reference to This Week’s New Yorker Poem “The most unusual application of the O death [where is thy sting?] sentence arose out of a naming coincidence. A report on the 1994 Grammys focused on a well-known pop singer. The headline ran: Mockery, where is thy Sting?: Gordon…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/08/27/on-jokes-poetry-and-originality-with-special-reference-to-this-week%e2%80%99s-new-yorker-poem/ Keats in full LOVE this essay.

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/06/01/keats-in-full/ my poetry illiberalism When Jordan recommended this book to me a couple of months ago, I had reservations; I’m not always a fan of the Marcus approach, for reasons suggested here (e.g., “Depending on your tastes, this is either spellbinding secret…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/05/26/my-poetry-illiberalism/ Non Angli, sed Angeli My review of James Schuyler’s Other Flowers is up, part of The Nation’s Spring Books Issue.

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/05/21/non-angli-sed-angeli/ I Don’t Usually Read Fiction I need a good read (or two) for the 19-hour flight on Friday. (The last book that got me through a transatlantic flight was Never Let Me Go — which makes me speculate that the secret to alleviating the suffering…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/04/06/i-dont-usually-read-fiction/ Quixotry If you’re in NYC or Philly next week, you could catch the real me, as opposed to the somewhat elusive virtual me, giving a reading from my new book Shoulder Season.

Monday, April 12
6:00 p.m.
In the…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/04/05/quixotry/ Riposte: Our Promiscuous Brains I haven’t read the article Bobby refers to. (Monkey experiments … snore.) However, I have been reading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene’s Reading in the Brain, which has much to say about the architecture of our brains and how our reading and…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/01/13/4476/ Point Democracy “You’d be hard-pressed to find a better summary of the plight of contemporary poetry than Montreal poet Michael Lista’s recent observation that “most of the so-called avant-garde poets can’t write, and most of the so-called lyric poets can’t think.”—Carmine Starnino,…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/13/point-democracy/ Babel vs. Lingua Franca My latest Lingo column, Linguistic Currency, is now up on the Nation’s website. It takes off from Ferenc Karinthy’s novel Metropole, and a fascinating book on the role of English in the transformation of Slovakia into a modern European…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/03/babel-vs-lingua-franca-2/ Miss Poem miss_poem

“Miss Poem” of Hamra Street, in addition to “Jardin des poetes,” a plant nursery on the highway outside Byblos, and “Poeme,” a lingerie store near the bottom of the Chouf mountains, testify to the worldwide relevance of peignoirs, greenery,…

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